Maurice Clifton Sr. is a chaplain with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. A community advocate, the First Step Act freed Clifton from federal prison 23 years after being convicted of a low-level drug crime. Mason Bryan is Prison Journalism Project's senior editor. Before PJP, he served as the associate opinion editor for Crosscut, Washington State's largest independent news site. His writing has appeared in HuffPost, The Santiago Times, Real Change News and elsewhere. An avid reader, Bryan is currently enrolled in a four-year liberal arts program at the University of Chicago Graham School. He graduated from Seattle University in 2015 with a degree in political science.